Registered Nurse - Critical Response, Full Time (ssmh)
Job posting number: #164565 (Ref:R160642)
Job Description
It's more than a career, it's a calling
MO-SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint LouisWorker Type:
Job Highlights:
You may be eligible for a $15K Sign On Bonus!**
Department: Critical Response is part of the Nursing Administration Department
Schedule: 12-hour night shift and 2-3 shifts per 4-week schedule in the ICU or ED
Desired Qualifications: Minimum of 2 years of Critical Care experience (ICU or ED experience). BLS and ACLS will also be needed, as well as TNCC and PALs.
Location: St. Joseph Hospital - Lake St. Louis
Additional Job Duties: Teaching, Rounding, Mentoring.
**$5000 Referral Bonus available to current employees**
Competitive, affordable health insurance including but not limited to:
- Getting paid every day!
- Access up to $5,250 in tuition coverage per year
- Paid maternity & paternity coverage
- Adoption assistance
- Various competitive health insurance options & wellness plans
- Retirement benefits, including employer matching plans
- Long & short-term disability
- Employee assistance programs (EAP)
*Please note that benefits and eligibility can vary by position; exclusions may apply.
Job Summary:
This role is pat of the expert clinical team in the acute care area. Prevents clinical deterioration in patients outside of intensive care units. Leads the Critical Response team's initial assessment of critically ill patients and has the ability and clinical skills to assess and implement early interventions to prevent cardiopulmonary arrest, better facilitating the patient's transition to a higher level of care.Job Responsibilities and Requirements:
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Acts as the first level of support for the bedside nursing team when the condition of a patient is in question or jeopardy.
- Educates and supports the bedside team in the evaluation and management of unstable patients.
- Guides the bedside nursing team to help direct patient care.
- Assists in determining when to escalate a rapid response.
- Facilitates early and rapid transition of patients to a higher level of care.
- Closely monitors patients who have recently transferred from the intensive care unit (ICU).
- Utilizes available data from the electronic medical record and other sources to identify at risk patients. e.g. Deterioration Index, Sepsis score and other acuity scores.
- Collects and maintains data related to Rapid Response and Code episodes to drive process improvement.
- Participates in Ministry Rapid Response and Code debrief process and Regional Critical Response Nursing Team.
- Applies the existing body of evidence-based practice and scientific knowledge in health care to critical care nursing practice, ensuring that nursing care is delivered based on patient’s age-specific needs and clinical needs as described in the department's Scope of Service.
- Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION
- Graduate of accredited school of nursing
EXPERIENCE
- Two years of registered nurse experience in critical care, emergency care or progressive care
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Constant use of speech to share information through oral communication.
- Constant standing and walking.
- Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
- Frequent sitting, reaching and keyboard use/data entry.
- Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
- Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
- Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
- Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
- Occasional lifting/moving of patients.
- Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
- Occasional driving.
- Rare crawling and running.
Work Shift:
Night Shift (United States of America)Job Type:
Department:
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